Influential leaders and bold thinkers convened to examine Asia’s expanding role in shaping the global economy, policy, technology and culture

HONG KONG, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On 14 October, CNN hosted the inaugural Asian edition of its new events franchise, Global Perspectives, in Bangkok, Thailand. Graced by the presence of H.R.H. Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana Rajakanya and opened by H.E. Anutin Charnvirakul, Prime Minister of Thailand, the invitation-only event convened prominent leaders, decision-makers and influential voices from the region and beyond for insightful discussions on the forces shaping global transformation.

More than 500 attendees joined the conversation at the Ritz Carlton in Bangkok, where distinguished speakers including President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde, Director-general of the World Trade Organization Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Grab CEO Anthony Tan, and Academy Award-winning Creator and Co-director of “KPop Demon Hunters” Maggie Kang, shared insights on leadership in an era of change, resilience of trade, and the future of AI. Conversations were moderated by CNN journalists Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Richard Quest, Kristie Lu Stout, Will Ripley and Hanako Montgomery, with panels exploring the ideas that shape belief, the power that shapes lives, and the futures we are shaping.

CNN Global Perspectives: In Bangkok sponsors include B. Grimm, Dangote, JFOODO, Bank of America, Siam Piwat Group, Tencent, Central Pattana, Tourism Authority of Thailand and Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau.

Interested audiences can catch up on the conversation and key takeaways from the event at
cnn.com/globalperspectives

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Key Insights from the Event

H.E. Anutin Charnvirakul, Prime Minister of Thailand, said “I am especially pleased to welcome CNN Global Perspectives, building on the success of CNN Countdown last year…CNN Global Perspectives gives us the chance to hear different views and discuss how economic decisions affect people’s daily life. I hope today’s program will bring different perspectives together and keep the discussions grounded in practical choices.”

Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, said, “What we have at the moment is this recurring, infamous war of Russia against Ukraine, that is continuing and it’s putting pressure on refinery capacities, as you know. But since March ’26, we also have the war in the Middle East, which is also putting a huge strain on the supply and movement of oil and gas.”

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-general of the World Trade Organization, told CNN’s Richard Quest, “Trade is facing the biggest disruptions it’s ever faced in the 80 years history of … the World Trade Organization… But at the same time, Richard, what has really surprised us is the resilience of trade.”

Grab CEO Anthony Tan, said “AI itself is not going to take your job … but who will take your job is somebody who knows and uses AI, they’re going to take your job… If you aren’t going to re-invest and self-invest and learn and embrace AI, I’m sorry, the person on your right, on your left who is embracing AI will take your job.”

Maggie Kang, Academy Award-winning Creator and Co-director of “KPop Demon Hunters”, said “We had already, you know, as a culture, kind of cemented our place in movies and TV with ‘Squid Game’ and in music with Kpop, and I saw all of that, and you know growing up where my culture wasn’t so cool, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, we’re cool now’. Maybe it’s time that we could do something cool in the animation space because Koreans have produced a lot of animation for a lot of other people, but we never really had like something that we could call our own.”

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STOCKHOLM, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sinch AB (publ) will publish its interim report for the third quarter of 2026 on Thursday, November 5, 2026, at 07:30 CET. A conference call and a webcast will take place at 10:00 CET where Sinch’s Acting CEO and CFO Jonas Dahlberg and SVP Corporate Control Sofia Ohlander will present the report. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.

Time for publication of the interim report:
Thursday, November 5, 2026, at 07:30 CET

Time for conference call and webcast:
Thursday, November 5, 2026, at 10:00 CET

If you wish to participate via teleconference, please register using the link below. After registration, you will receive dial-in numbers and a conference ID to join the call. Via the teleconference, you can ask questions verbally.

Teleconference registration link here.
The live webcast, where you can follow the presentation and submit written questions, will be available here.
The presentation and report will be available at Sinch’s corporate website after publication.
Please also see the financial calendar for other investor-related events.

For further information, please contact
Mia Nordlander
SVP Investor Relations & Sustainability
Mobile: +46 735 11 53 95
E-mail: mia.nordlander@sinch.com

Fredrik Hallstan
Director Corporate Communications
Mobile: +46 761 15 38 30
E-mail: fredrik.hallstan@sinch.com

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Clarion, IR’s first standalone SaaS product, brings employees and IT teams together in real time to answer the deceptively simple question behind a bad call: “Is it me, or the platform?”

SYDNEY, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Leading global observability software company Integrated Research (IR) (ASX: IRI) today launched Clarion, a lightweight observability solution that gives employees and IT teams proactive, real-time visibility into what is affecting their call and meeting readiness. Clarion is a standalone SaaS product built on IR’s new AI-powered platform, Iris.

Built for organizations with remote, hybrid and contact center workforces, Clarion addresses a persistent visibility gap between what an employee experiences and what IT can see. When a call drops, breaks up or simply does not work as expected, it answers the first question anyone asks: “Is it me, or the platform?”

“Workplace communications rely on a technology recipe that includes multiple devices, home and corporate networks, and communications platforms. When any one of these ingredients is deficient the entire communication experience suffers, often critically. Fixing problems such as these can be complicated and time-consuming, overwhelming the IT team,” said Ian Lowe, CEO and Managing Director of IR.

Clarion solves this by giving both employees and IT teams real-time visibility of the deficiencies impacting communications. It also provides employees a pre-call health check.

A lightweight widget on the employee desktop tells them, in plain language, what is affecting their calls and meetings. Fleet dashboards aggregate telemetry across the whole workforce, so IT teams can establish whether a problem is isolated or part of something wider. Where many monitoring tools track the network, device or platform in isolation, and only surface a problem after it has been reported, Clarion brings all these signals together in one real time view, often before a call is even affected.

For an employee, that might mean seeing that weak Wi-Fi or headset connectivity is affecting a call and acting on it without contacting IT. When support is needed, Clarion captures the technical context around the issue, giving IT a far better starting point than a ticket reporting that ‘something isn’t working.’

For IT teams, that same visibility surfaces warnings and critical issues across endpoints, exposes patterns, and allows them to drill down from a single device or connection to a problem affecting a wider group of employees.

Clarion is designed to give employees that visibility while respecting their privacy. It observes the technology supporting their work rather than the employees themselves. It does not record screens, log keystrokes, track activity or idle time, or access what is said on calls.

“Everything we have built has been about giving organizations visibility into the technology behind their most critical operations,” said Lowe. “Clarion takes that in a new direction. As a standalone, cloud-native SaaS product, it gives us a simpler way to reach more organizations and more users.”

Clarion extends IR’s enterprise observability portfolio, including Prognosis, Prognosis Elevate (observability-as-a-service), and AI Chat powered by Iris.

Clarion is available from 15 October 2026 with a 30-day free trial. For more information or to request a demonstration, visit the website.

ABOUT IR

IR (ASX: IRI) is an Australian-headquartered global observability software company that helps organizations understand and manage the performance of business-critical communications, payments and infrastructure environments. For more than 30 years, IR has worked with leading global organizations across complex technology environments, providing the visibility and intelligence teams need to act with confidence.

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